Daniel Phineas Woodbury

Daniel Phineas Woodbury (16 December 1812-15 August 1864) was a Union Army Major-General during the American Civil War.

Biography
Daniel Phineas Woodbury was born in New London, New Hampshire in 1812, and he graduated from West Point in 1836 and served in the US Army Corps of Engineers, overseeing the building of Forts Kearny and Laramie from 1847 to 1850 and later Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas Light. Woodbury fought at the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861, commanded an engineer brigade during the Peninsula Campaign and at the Second Battle of Bull Run, was promoted to Brigadier-General for his construction of pontoon bridges over the Rappahannock River at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862, and became commandant of Key West in 1863, dying there of yellow fever in 1864.